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Ana
Rank in 2024
#205
Born in 2024
1,497
Peak year
1991 · #119
Origin
Not recorded
1880 to 2024
SteadyIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 1,497 girls were named Ana, about 1 in every 1,078.
- It peaked in 1991 with 2,652 babies, ranked #119.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 110,060 girls have been named Ana since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Ana per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- <0.1Silent1928–45
- 0.2Boomers1946–64
- 0.7Gen X1965–80
- 1.1Millennials1981–96
- 1.2Gen Z1997–12
- 0.8Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 1,051 babies, 0.05 per 1,000. Silent: 1,493 babies, 0.07 per 1,000. Boomers: 8,175 babies, 0.23 per 1,000. Gen X: 16,904 babies, 0.66 per 1,000. Millennials: 31,045 babies, 1.10 per 1,000. Gen Z: 34,266 babies, 1.18 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 16,920 babies, 0.83 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From various languages including Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, Bulgarian, Serbo-Croatian, Slovene, and Macedonian, all derived—sometimes via Late Latin Anna in the Vulgate—from Koine Greek Ἄννα (Ánna, “Anna”), chiefly in reference to Saint Anne, the apocryphal mother of Mary, mother of Jesus, but appearing in the New Testament in reference to Anna the Prophetess, from Hebrew חַנָּה (Ḥannâ, “Hannah”), from חַנָּה (ḥannâ, “grace, gracious, graced with child”). As an Oregonian river, named for Ana Byars, daughter of the surveyor W. H. Byars. Doublet of Ann, Anne, Anna, and Hannah.
- A female given name, equivalent to English Anna or Hannah.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- Not recorded
From Wiktionary’s entry for Ana, CC BY-SA 4.0.